The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

has decided, by large majority, to admit
women as students OF medicine.
EDGAR L. WAKEMAN says he can give the
names aud addresses of 900 gypsies whose
combined wealth will exceed S40O0OOO0.
A WHITE BLAc1B1BD may be seen Gagged side by
side with its iet-black nest-mate in a Paxton
(Ill) cigar store. 1t was found in ex-Mayor
Shepardson'S door yard, where it was Matched,
IL is precisely like the mate only white
THE sinking cave six miles southeast Of
Rocheport, No, is one of the greatest natural
curosities in Central Missouri. The cavo has
three channels extending each Il mile under
ground Where the two side chambers branch
out from the middle is pool Of water said to be
fathomleSS
AT Hungarian wedding in Bethlehem, Pa,
last week, the justice married the witnesses in
stead of the parties who went to be Joined in
wedocS. Discovering his mistake, he immedi-
ately divorced them, and completed the marry
ing job Alright.
AT AN opera festival in Louisville the Other
evening the management so thoroughly enforced
the mo hat rule" that, it is said, not single
lady with covered head appeared III the audi
ence. All were required to remove their bon
nets on entering the auditorium.
THE Chief Justice of Connecticut, who dned
the other day with the Board of Pardons of that
State at the penitentiary, experienced a sudden
failure of appetite upon learning that the woman
who served at the table was also serving life
sentence for poisoning her husband.
SOME, young me- kho reside on Bayou Robert,
Louisiana, have been making from So 25 to S. 80
every evening after they get through with their
farm work by killing cranes for q New York
taxidermist. He pays soc. each for the horned
and barn owl, and good prices for many other
birds that do not belong to the song varieties
and are not protected by State laws.
THE Japenese steamer Fukusawa-maru was
sunk for two years in the Thames. When raised
she became the Russian boat Grand Duke Con-
stantine, but she was continually repaired for
two years more, and finally seized for debt. She
then ran under the British flag and upon rock
at Hakodate, becoming a total wreck. She was
purchased at auction by some japanese, who
raised her and are now running her along the
japanese coast;
THE Compile de Paris has been receiving his
adherents from various parts of France at San
Reno and at Lausanne, and is reported to have
been greatly cheered by their reports, 1t is
rather odd that Just when we are told that the
royal cause is looking up" an advertisement
should appear of a sale of Bourbon relics, ''by
one of the most aristocratic of French families. y
One of the items is some hair found in the
grave of the Queen Marie Antoinette in 1915"
THE newspaper funny men, by starting the
yarn that Prof. Hiorth Boyesen gets $4,000 a
year from prominent publishing firm for the
use of the is in his name with which they
msspel it, have brought down upon him en- ava
lanche of letters from an army of unsupported
relatives, asking for assistance from him. This
may seem funny to most people, but it does not
strike Prof. Boyesen that way. He claims that
the Americans are utterly lacking in a sense of
humor, and would like to drive the alleged joke
home into the head of its originator if he could
only catch him.
A FARMER in Cundnamarca (Colombia), a dis
patch from Panama states, had an extraordi-
nary experience with a stroke of lightning some
days ago. AS reported, the results were that
his left eye was damaged and the eyebrow
burned completely off. The hair surrounding
his ears, portion OF his beard and all the hair
on his breast were burned Off All the brass
buttons disappeared from his clothing, his
watch chain was cut in two small hole was
bored through his watch and the watch glass
was shattered and his right side was burned.
| He suffered severely, but is recovering rapidly
| under medical treatment
ABOUT the year 1892 Mrs Joshua Blake wife
| of Joshua Blake, of an old mercantile house on
| Central Wharf, Boston, sent her son, Joshua
Blake, Jr., then an officer in the United States
| Navy, stationed at Jamaica, q box of Havana
| cigars. His vessel left Jamaica before the
| arrival of the package, and it was retained in
| the custom house there thirty-flve years. Sub
| sequently it was sent to the New York custom
house, where it remained twenty NOR, years.
| 1t was then brought TO light, and recently came
into possession of It's rightful owner, Mr. Joshua
| Blake, of Boston, who has tested the quality of
a sample cigar So years old. and found that it
| had not deprecated in quality.
THE Haydn monument recently unveiled in
| Vienna bears more than life-sized statue of
| the great composer. In his left hand is scroll
with golden characters, while the right holds a
! pencil The face is very ife-like and the ex-
| preston is bright with inspiration The white
marble of the figure, enveloped in the long folds
OF loose mantle forming the background con-
| trasts with the fawn-colored marble of the
| Tyrol, of which the pedestal is made. The
whole is raised on steps of gray granite. Splen-
| did laurel wreathS were deposited at the monu-
ment by all the musical societies of Vienna.
| Some withered flowers came from England,
and, being sent by admirers of Haydn, were laid
| side by side with the fresh blossoms.
THERE is one man who is deserving of place
in the history of the discovery of natural gas
DR.. Osterleni, of Findlay knew of it's presence
there fifty years ago He was passing a stone
| quarry and detected it's presence. He made a
| little cone of mud over fissure, and put a
| bucket over the orifice. In few minutes he
struck match under the bucket When the
Doctor picked himself up in the adjoining corn
field the bucket was still in the air, sailing north
| in the direction of Toledo 1t was through Dr.
! Osterleni' is energy, fifty years later, that the
| first natural gas company in the town was or
| gained. He had been laughed at and derided
| for half a century, and even after the flow had
! been struck in 1884, they say good many of
|
! thing somewhere.
| THE Pail Mall Gazette is bitter at the expense
| of Queen Victoria. For years, says an editorial
| article, her majesty has been sort Of "She' to
| the nation, surrounded with halo of mystery.
| whose existence was a matter of doubt to many
of her subjects. The jubilee year was thought
| to be an atonement for long years of moody Sc
| cluslon. Yet at the drawing-room on Tuesday
| She lodged out of one of the back doors Of
| Palace diSannOnta1
! thousands of people who had waited patiently
| for hours to catch a passing glimpse of her face
| Last week Codys circus was abruptly closed to
| the public in order to crafty another within of
! our sovereign lady, and the nation had to pay
| hundred policemen to ward off the attentions of
a too loyal crowd, although Cody and Red Shirt
were received like blood relations
PIECE of interesting information reaches me
from a trustworthy source, writes St. Peters
burg correspondent of the London Times. It
will be remembered that the submission of the
Merry Turcomans was gained by help of the
| famous Moscow merchant Kouschine who sent
his SO called trading caravan into Merv in charge
| Of AJikhanon and other officers in disguise
Tor the great services then rendered. this pic
| neer or Russian conquests in Central Asia has
| been rewarded with patent of hereditary no.
! bility. His firm is well known for its manufac-
! ture of cheap and highly colored cotton prints
| for the Asia market, and the arms now granted
! TO him and his DESCENDANTS display three bob
| bins, indicating the means Of his elevation to
| rank and fortune. Precisely the same caravan
! tricks, | am assured, are now tried in Afghan
Iurkestan and by exactly the same persons